Bernie Sanders’ Present Fight against Corporate Rule vs. the Bernie of 1989

Sanders again tellingly addressed the gross inequalities and abuses the working class endures in this society controlled by the corporate elite. Sanders advocates for  Medicare for all, free higher education, $15 an hour minimum wage affordable housing, dramatically higher taxes on the rich and their corporations, for the need to combat climate change, the end to mass incarceration. In his speech , he advocates for a 21stCentury Economic Bill of Rights, a direct challenge to the neoliberal austerity measures pushed by the two corporate parties.  He outlines programs that most US people want– issues where the trade union leadership, if it were doing its job, would be leading the charge. Yet his speech was clearly one to rally people to vote Democratic and defeat the evil Republicans, a speech pushing people to once again believe in this never-say-die pipedream of reforming the Democratic Party.